Technical Product Owner

**Job Classification**
- TPO 142143
- Closing date : 14 October
- Job Family
- Information Technology
- Career Stream
- It Application Development
- Leadership Pipeline
- Manage Managers

**Job Purpose**

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all assetrelated matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions alignedto enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
- Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating theNedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy
- Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, assetand business needs
- Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation
- Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbank'svision and values
- Build a sustainable high-performance team by developing modernised skill sets
- Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function
- Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement
- Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI
- Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managingappropriate risk practices
- Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS
- Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on allmatters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems
- Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for thespecific assets assigned to the POCLAC
- Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets
- Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys andinformation
- Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensurecorrective action plans are developed and implemented
- Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation incollaboration with the relevant chapters
- Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments
- Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function
- Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets
- Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive
- Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain
- Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
- Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification
- B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees
- Essential Certifications
- Formal accreditation in professional field where applicable
- Minimum Experience Level
- Total number of years of experience:11 years +
- Management experience as part of the above years:6-7 Years
- Type of experience:11 Years + Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to alarge corporate organisation.
- Experience in a large IT Transformation Initiative
- Experience in commercial context knowledge important.

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Budgeting
- Business administration and management
- Business principles
- Business terms and definitions
- Capacity planning
- Change management
- Client service management
- Communication Strategies
- Diversity management
- Employee training/development
- Financial Accounting Principles
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Organisational behaviour theory
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Talent management
- Business writing skills
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
- Role relevant related technologies
- ITIL
- IT Concepts
- Business Process
- Products and Services
- Behavioural Competencies
- Building Partnerships
- Facilitating Change
- Inspiring others
- Business Acumen
- Driving for Results
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